Many funerals have been held for films buried at the box office. Now Hollywood plans a film about a funeral company buried in bankruptcy court. A script titled ''The Burial'' has been written around a 1995 Mississippi trial in which Willie E....

May 27, 2001, Sunday

Canada's economy stalled in February, as output dropped 0.1 percent after a 0.3 percent rise in January, but the decline was only half as bad as economists had predicted. Manufacturing led gross domestic product down, with a 0.9 percent drop, and...

May 1, 2001, Tuesday

F. William Conner, left, has been named president and chief executive of Entrust Technologies of Dallas, moving over from Nortel Networks, where he was president of the eBusiness Solutions division. Entrust designs software to ensure privacy and...

April 19, 2001, Thursday

Canada's central bank has lowered interest rates by one-quarter of a percentage point, the third cut this year, in an attempt to help the country's slowing economy. The Bank of Canada said the slowdown was largely a consequence of the easing in the...

April 18, 2001, Wednesday

The shares of Research in Motion Ltd., which makes wireless hand-held communications devices, gained $6.34, or 28.9 percent, to $28.27 in Nasdaq trading yesterday, a day after the company reported fourth-quarter profit of 10 cents a share, 40 percent...

April 13, 2001, Friday

Canada's unemployment rate rose to 7 percent in March from 6.9 percent in February. While employers added almost 30,000 jobs last month, reversing a drop in February, the unemployment rate rose because more Canadians began looking for work. Other...

April 7, 2001, Saturday

Mainly because of higher fuel prices, Air Canada will post a loss for the first quarter, its president, Robert Milton, said Friday. The current estimate by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call is for a loss of 1.19 Canadian dollars a...